Every site does a “Year In Review” nowadays. I know some people find them a creepy reminder of how much data is collected about us, but I love them. Quantified self plus pretty infographics? How could I say no?
For 2025, I collected some of my favourites:
Another gaming end of year recap – this time from Nintendo.
I thought I was finished with these 2025 year in reviews, with Spotify Wrapped first out of the gate on 3rd December.
It looks like Nintendo like to do things different – and published theirs on 13th January!
Spotify has data for most music I choose to listen to – on my computer, my phone, in the car, on smart speakers, etc. So Spotify’s end of year review is more complete.
Last.fm only has data for music I listen on my laptop, but I prefer their end of year reports for the amount of geeky detail they go into!
They have two Year In Review options: a page of graphs, and a more infographic/animation-focused report.
Backloggd is a site for tracking video game playing. My end-of-year recap is at backloggd.com/u/dalelane/recap which is the best place to look at it, but I’ve made a copy here.
Google Maps don’t produce a Year In Review email any more, since they moved location history data to be stored on-device instead of in the cloud. That’s a shame, so I asked Claude to make me one of my own using the data from Google Maps on my iPhone.
It came up with: dalelane.github.io/googlemaps-year-in-review
I got out of the habit of logging what I read, but this year I got back into Goodreads after wanting a way to share what I read on holiday.
Goodreads have two flavours of “year in review” reports:
I’ve long used podcasts as a way to distract me while travelling for business trips, doing housework at the weekends, shopping, and much more…
This year, I listened to even more podcasts than usual – the increased time I’ve spent walking this year gave me an extra couple of hours a day.
I use the (brilliant) Overcast podcast player, which generates a report of how much time I’ve spent listening to each podcast this year.